Seething mad would be an accurate description of Rep. Sylvester Turner the last time he addressed the Public Utility Commission. As I wrote recently, the Houston Democrat had come to the Austin meeting to argue for an emergency petition he filed to let elderly and disabled utility customers keep the power on in record temperatures […]
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It seems the ACLU has found the Harris County GOP, after all. In last this July 20 column on a local Republican party Facebook workshop, an attendee asked how he could keep certain groups he found unsavory, such as the ACLU, from finding him on the social networking site. Richard Dillon, the party’s “Rapid Response […]
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In Houston, Mayor Bill White prides himself on bridging compromise and rising above petty partisanship, as his current gig requires him to do. On the campaign trail for U.S. Senate, it’s a different story. It was interesting to read this blog post</strong> from Katherine Leal Unmuth of the Dallas News. She reported on a recent […]
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Hopefully, this is the last word on the claim of a recent Houston billboard, and a slew of others that have cropped up for years across the country, that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. Supporters of claim, including the leader of the conservative group Raging Elephants that sponsored the billboard, often mention a […]
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The billboard on the South Loop proclaiming “Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican!” is no more. The controversial message was pulled down over the weekend by the billboard’s owner, SignAd, in response to intense media coverage and criticism from activists such as Quanell X, according to the leader of the conservative grassroots group that […]
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In my Thursday column, I wrote about a new billboard off MLK and the South Loop, sponsored by a conservative group targeting black voters, that proclaims “Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican!” The claim has come up many times. While most evidence suggests it’s bogus, I wrote that there is some ambiguity. Yesterday, a […]
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In this photo by Nick de la Torre on today’s front page, 90-year-old Bob Nabours sits on what’s left of a beloved oak tree he planted 36 years ago. It bears a striking resemblance to a beautiful image from the favorite children’s book, The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein. As Harvey Rice reported, the tree […]
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Yet another startling development today from the compound of chaos that is the local animal shelter. Ray Sim, the guy hired just less than two months ago to get the the city’s Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care back on track, has been fired. The city won’t give details on why, but insiders suggest Sim […]
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